lease of life
collocation in Englishmeaningsofleaseandlife
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lease
noun[C]
uk/liːs/us/liːs/
a legal agreement in which you pay money in order to use a building, piece of land, vehicle, etc. for ...
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life
noun
uk/laɪf/us/laɪf/
the period between birth and death, or the experience or state of ...
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(Definition ofleaseandlifefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflease of life
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They believed that they had been given a newleaseoflifeand a purpose.
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Cellars were taking on a newleaseoflife.
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Not only have traditional methodologies taken on a newleaseoflifebut recent critical methodologies have been recognized as offering new ways to listen to old music.
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But paradoxically these may be exactly the circumstances which, at some point in the future, may give fujimorismo (or some variant of it) a newleaseoflife.
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There is therefore a chance of this independent broadcasting channel being given a newleaseoflife.
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We want to give it a newleaseoflife.
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I believe that nationalisation will allow these practices a longerleaseoflife.
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The coal industry, which has been responsible for the growth of our industrial pattern, is now taking on a newleaseoflife.
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This is not to say that steel cannot have a newleaseoflife.
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Oil has become very expensive, and we have rightly given a newleaseoflifeto our coal industry.
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I have every confidence that the industry can take a newleaseoflife.
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It is therefore not quite the case that the constitution will be still-born; it will have a shortleaseoflife.
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We are told that by de-rating agricultural land they are going to give agriculture a newleaseoflife.
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The real intention seems to be to give these people anotherleaseoflife.
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The ports which are not to be taken over have had a newleaseoflife; and how glad we all are!
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They will have an incentive at least to try to find a newleaseoflifein local government.
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It is possible that the railways may have a newleaseoflifeunder this proposal.
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So we should be looking for ways of recovering derelict and partially derelict waterways, and giving them a newleaseoflife.
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The manufacture of printing gave a newleaseoflifeand encouragement to advertising on hoardings.
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